Teaching with Technology

A week or so ago I posted about a site called Lulu which allowed you to publish children’s work.   I recieved the results yesterday and I have to say that I was very impressed with the results.

The whole process from ordering to the books arriving took just over a week and the quality of the printing and binding was excellent.   The children were absolutely extatic when they saw the results.   As mentioned in the previous post I think that this is now a real alternative to buying a traditional book for the children to record work in.

In September I’m going to try and do all my children’s History in this way and see where we get to.   I’ll be giving the children different aspects of the Victorian period to research to bring together in this way.

The question is will the quality of the work match the quality of the end product – I’m sure it will.

Really excited by Google Sketchup looks like it could be absolutely fantastic in the classroom!   I’ve just had a five minute mess around on it and already I’ve managed to create my first building.   I’m looking forward to using it for a QCA Design and Technology unit that we do in Year Six on shelters.  

I think that we’ll try to build our own city by creating our own buildings and then putting them together into our own fully fledged creation.   I’ll post again when we’ve had a go!

Started to put together a Voicethread project looking at how the children feel about moving on to their next school.